More than a catalog for a State Museum exhibition, this
24-page book documents Benny Benson's achievement and even shows some
entries by other children who submitted entries in the 1927 flag design
competition. See what Alaska's flag might have been and see Benny's
alternate design. Historical photos are well used to illustrate the
story.

This historical novel based on the founding of Fairbanks
is the third in a trilogy about Sven Olafsen's search for his father
in Alaska at the turn of the last century. The first two titles are Gold Rush Runaway and Fevering for Gold.

Free Radical, Murphy, Claire Rudolf, Clarion, 2002.Grades 9-12.

A novel for young adults that begins when 15-year old Luke
McHenfy finds that his determination to be a Fairbanks baseball star is
disrupted by a shocking revelation by his mother.

This is a modern "folk tale" that features a hungry,
overalls-wearing moose who needs help getting a giant cabbage to a fair
that might just look familiar to folks in the Tanana Valley. It is
loosely based on the Russian tale of the giant turnip.

Based on the early life of the author of Daughter of the Gold Rush,
this first chapter book is part of the "Road to Reading" series and
tells what it was like for young Klondy Nelson to live in an interior
mining camp.